'Sons of Anarchy' recap: 'Grandma is dead'

Those angry words were spoken by Jax to Gemma during tonight's edition of “Sons of Anarchy.” Talk about a vicious shot straight to the heart. Not exactly the stuff of a Hallmark's Mother's Day card.

Right now, Gemma is the clear loser in Tara's outrageous miscarriage scheme. She's on the ropes. Getting pummeled and dominated. But for how long? When will the whole sordid plot blow up in Tara's face?

Or will it?

The scheme, which was iffy from the start, is showing some signs of crackage, just like we knew it would. Wayne is ticked off over how Tara used him to secure the restraining order. And he is appalled by the lengths to which Tara went.

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“It breaks my heart that you had to become something so wrong to do something you thought was right,” he tells the sneaky little con artist.

Meanwhile, Gemma is now convinced that Tara was never really pregnant, and Tara's lawyer is clearly put off by her client's shady doings. But the real weak link, of course, is Wendy. She's back to shooting up and is coming real close to shooting off her mouth around Gemma, who tells her that she “backed the wrong horse” and now has a chance to change her bet.

There is even a brief sign of weakness on Tara's part. In front of a mirror, she breaks down and cries, but quickly stiffens and tells herself, “You stop it.” Will she have the same resolve now that Jax is pleading with her to “let me back in?”

Tara only has to look at District Attorney Tyne Patterson to see how the best-laid plans can go awry. Patterson's been on the war path ever since the school shooting went down in the season opener, pressuring anyone and everyone to give up SAMCRO. But it just ain't working. Her latest target, Nero, pulls a surprise by telling her that he's responsible for putting the KG9 used in the shooting out on the street.

Patterson knows this is total BS, but, initially, she seems ready to nail Nero anyway — just so she can have a public whipping boy. But when Roosevelt confirms that Erin's blood was found in Toric's motel room, she knows she can't, in good consciousness, press her case against Nero and lets him go free.

Some schemes just can't stand up to pressure.

Random thoughts and other developments:

You have to wonder why Nero's loyalty to SAMCRO has been so unwavering. Gemma is the obvious reason, of course. But his brief association with Jax and the guys has brought him nothing but trouble. And if he ever finds out about what really went down in that cabin in the woods, all hell could break loose.

I always find it interesting when Jax connects with someone on the common ground of being a parent. When he sees that the hit-and-run driver who killed a Biz Lat was the father of a boy gunned down in the school shooting, everything changes in his mind. He straightens the boy's photo on the book case and murmurs “I'm sorry” to the father, who is KO'd on the floor. It's a nice little touch that allows us to see that there are tiny shreds of humanity still left in Jax.

Though it was oh so brief, I applaud the sequence in which we met the vigilante hit-and-run man. It's one of the few times that we've seen the horrifying effects of the school shooting on someone other than the SAMCRO guys, for whom it's mostly been an inconvenience. And it was important that Jax saw that effect.

It's ironic that Tara had to become more like Gemma to take down Gemma.

Juice apparently thinks Conner is a “good guy” and won't cause any problems for the club as it attempts to go legit. Why am I not convinced?